Potentia of Poverty

Margherita Pascucci has published five monographs, including Philosophical readings of Shakespeare.'Thou art the thing itself'; Macchina Capitale. Genesi e struttura dello sfruttamento; Causa sui. Saggio sul capitale e il virtuale; and Potenza della povertà. Marx legge Spinoza. Antonio Negri was an independent researcher and world-renowned theorist, who taught political philosophy at the University of Padua, the University of Vincennes, and College Internationale de Philosophie. With Michael Hardt, he coauthored the best-selling trilogy, Empire, Multitude, and Commonwealth.

Preface to the Italian Edition by Antonio Negri
Author’s Preface to the English Edition

Introduction

1 Self-Cause and Cause through an Other [causa sui-causa ab alio]
 1.1 Value and Common Notions
 1.2 The Definition of Value and of the Character of Form-Equivalent
 1.3 Common Notions as ‘koinai ennoiai’
 1.4 How Are Common Notions Linked to Affects?

2 Marx’s Notebook on Spinoza: Imagination and Revolutionary Praxis
 2.1 Theological-Political Treatise
 2.2 Imagination
 2.3 Berlin 1841: Letters: umwälzende Praxis [Revolutionary Praxis]

3 The ‘potentia’ of Poverty: For an Economy of Joy
 3.1 Atom of Virtuality and the Anticipatory Abstraction
 3.2 The Establishment of a-Conceptual Relations
 3.3 The Virtuality of History
 3.4 Excursus on the ‘potentia’ (Ontological) and How This Defines Poverty
 3.5 How the dunamis-Virtue Is the Spinozan potentia
 3.6 The Virtuality of Our Time
 3.7 Potentia and Dismeasure

4 The Production of Subjectivity: Labour, Poverty and the Free Man: Or, the ‘potentia’ of Labour
 4.1 The Virtuality of Subjectivity
 4.2 On Labour and Poverty
 4.3 Potentia and the Intensive
 4.4 The Plus of Being

Selected Bibliography
Index